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JOSEPH FIRMN DIONNE AND JOSEPH ADOLPI IE GrUY, OF EDMNDS'PON, CANADA.

RAIL AND TIE PLAi'E;

SPECIFICA'ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,234, dated.- riinuar3, 18919.

Application filed September 16, 1898. Serial No. 691,098. (NO model.)

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Be it known that we,JOSEPH FIRMIN DIONNE and JOSEPH ADOLPHE GrIIY, ofEdmundston, in the Province of New Brunswick and Dominion of Canada,have invented a new and Improved Rail and Tie Plate, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improvement in rail and tie plates placedbetween the tie and the base of the rail and the object of our inventionis to lessen the wear of the tie by friction of the rail thereon, andalso to prevent the spikes from coming up and permitting spreading ofthe rails from the true line of gage, and generally to resist thespreading of the rails, maintaining them at a true and perfect gage, andthe invention also relates to a device tobe usedin connection with saidplate for indicating the proper location of the rail-spikes.

Our invention comprises the novel features l1ereinafter described andclaimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view Of our tieplate. Figs. 2 and 3 are plansshowing the plate in use, Fig. 2 showing the first position of the plateand Fig. '3 showing the inal position of the plate. Fig.4:1sacroSS-Sectional elevation showing the plate in use.

Phe object of our invention is to provide a tie-plate which is cheap tomanufacture and which will thoroughly hold the spikes in position, andthus maintain perfectly the gage of the rails. This plate is clearlyshown in F`ig. 1, and consists of abody A, which is ilat and which whenin use lies between the base of the rail and the tie. At cach end of theplate is formed a flange D, the same being vertical in position, and thetwo iianges at opposite ends of the plate are at such a distance apartas to lie outside of tl1e spikes when in use. These flanges strengthenthe plate and furnish surfaces which may be struch by a hammer inforeing the plate into or out of position. At two diagonally-oppositecorners of the plate are located offset portions B, which consist ofstrips having first an upward bend and then a horizontal bend. These twooffset portions are so located and are of Such a size that when theplate is in position they partly cover the heads of the spikes F, bywhich the rail is held down.

In putting the plate in position the position of the spilzes is iirstlocated on the tie and the spilzes are partly driven. The plate is thenplaced between the rail E and the tie T in a diagonal position andbetween the spilzes, as shown in Fig. 2, and the spikes F are thendriven home. The plate is then turned by striking the flanges D at eachend with a hammer, so as to place it square across the rail or in theposition shown in Fig. 8.

In this position the offset portio.ns B cover the spike-heads andprevent them from working loose. The offset portions B and the flanges Doffer a secure protection for the spike-heads and prevent thepossibility of their working loose. The offset portions B and theflanges D should either be welded together or cast integral, So thateach supports the other. The two other corners of the plate are providedWith notches 0 so located that a spike could be driven into one or bothOf these to hold the plate in position. The plate is thus'locked sothatit cannot be removed without first drawing the loching-spikes.

Our tie-plate is constructed, preferably, of wronght or malleable ironor steel and may be cheaply stamped out; Its cost Will therefore be verysmall, so that it may be widely used. Its use will tend to lengthen thelife of the ties and also to hold the rails more securely upon the ties.

These plates may be made of all dimensions and materials to fit allstyles and sizzes of rails.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. A rail and tie plate, consisting of a fiatbody having portions at two diagonally opposite corners offset or bentupward to cover the spike-heads, said portions opening toward the sidesof the plate and oppositely, and

notches in the other corners of the plate adapt ed 130 receivelocking-spkes, substantally l;S sde Of the offset portions, substantayasi deserbed. described.

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